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The lung lesions in an individual infected with tuberculosis are surprisingly variable and independent of each other, despite whether the patient has clinically active or latent disease, according to a new animal study. ...

Experimental drug that targets macrophages, a type of immune cells, in microenvironment surrounding lethal brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme decreased cancer's growth and extended survival of lab mice with cancer. Resu...

Research on human and rat vascular smooth muscle cells provides evidence of a link between nicotine and atherosclerosis, major cause of heart attacks.

In lab cultures of mammalian cells, researchers showed that influenza A infection could be controlled by targeting viruses' dependence on cellular glucose. Boosting glucose concentrations concomitantly increased influenz...

Additional evidence has been gained indicating that the massive brain cell death of Alzheimer's disease is result of mature neurons mistakenly re-entering the cell cycle. They fail to divide and eventually die.

A group of researchers has discovered a faster and more efficient mechanism for reprogramming induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). The discovery decreases the time needed for cell reprogramming from a couple of weeks to...

Physicists have long predicted that what came into being billions of years ago will inevitably be snuffed out. One day, the universe will collapse, folding in on itself like the sand in an hourglass, squeezing all materi...

In collaboration with the University of Basel, an international team of researchers has observed a strong energy loss caused by frictional effects in the vicinity of charge density waves. This may have practical signific...

A hand-held spectrometer pioneered by Toronto-based TellSpec that can determine exactly what is in the user's food and display it on his or her smartphone. The idea for the device came from co-founder Isabel Hoffman's da...

The U.S. and China produce more total e-waste than any other country, according to a new map that tracks e-waste around the world.

Earth's greatest killer, intelligent reptiles and why James Bond likes shaken martinis are just a few of the cool stories we found for you this week.

People get fired for all sorts of reasons. Here are 10 that might surprise you.

These genius shopping apps makes shopping with a mobile phone easier than ever.

When the soccer video game FIFA 14 went on sale this past fall, it boasted a ball that, at long last, could sail smartly through the air. In earlier versions of the popular game, the ball sometimes... --

NASA has agreed to work with SpaceX on lease terms for Launch Pad 39A, the home of the Apollo missions. Launch Complex 39A has been inactive since 20111 0but was used for nearly every Apollo mission, includng Apollo 11, ...